Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to consider how we can best integrate prescribing teaching into the Primary Care courses of the medical curriculum. Recent student feedback has highlighted that students want more prescribing teaching integrated throughout the undergraduate medical curriculum. We propose to review and map prescribing teaching across the current medical curriculum from a primary care perspective, with the aim to understand the current offering and identify areas to develop new prescribing initiatives aimed at improving student learning and better preparing students for clinical practice. Following this scoping and mapping exercise, we will co-develop innovation(s) to help address gaps identified and further enhance any current teaching offered.

Project Lead

Felicity Lalloo (f.lalloo@imperial.ac.uk), Clinical Teaching Fellow in Primary Care

Further Details/Experience Required

Students enrolled on the MBBS in years 3,4,5 and 6 are eligible to apply.  Part-time for six months/26 weeks in total.  
Prescribing recruitment ad

Summary

This project will involve one Student Shaper working collaboratively with the Undergraduate Primary Care Education primary team, and will provide the opportunity to:

• Have an active role in adapting current module materials and shape the future of the GPPHC module curriculum and assessment
• Co-create a more inclusive assessment for future GPPHC students, drawing on a range of creative approaches to allow for deeper and more impactful and meaningful reflection

Through participation of this project, you will not only have a unique experience of curriculum development, but will also develop your leadership, prioritisation, and teamwork skills, working within a supportive team. Once implemented, there is scope to evaluate any new assessments, and we would plan to share innovative work through this project through possible publications and/or conference presentations.

Project Lead

Neepa Thacker (n.thacker@imperial.ac.uk), Year 5 General Practice and Primary Health Care Course Lead, School of Public Health

Further Details/Experience Required

Students enrolled on Year 5 and 6 of the MBBS are eligible.  One position available.  Part-time for 16 weeks until May.  

Phase 3a GPPHC module recruitment ad

Summary

Are you interested in developing your creative skills whilst learning more about educational development in medicine?

Apply to be a Student Shaper with us, the LMAP team, to develop the use of 'Ed Discussion' as a tool to enrich student experience!

Student Shapers will collaborate on identifying areas for quality improvement and applying creative approaches to addressing these. Activities may include discussion and planning meetings, survey design, technical platform adaptation, and/or content creation.

Students engaging in this project will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills including:

• communication
• insight gathering and analysis
• technology development
• presenting

Students will also be able to develop their professional network by working with faculty on this project!

Project Lead

Nileema Patel (nileema.patel@imperial.ac.uk), Teaching Fellow in Lifestyle Medicine and Public Health

Further Details/Experience Required

MBBS students in Phase 1a or b.  For ten weeks during term-time, part-time.  3 positions available 

Ed Discussion recruitment ad

Summary

The BSc Medical Biosciences (BMB) programme was designed to utilise the principles of blended teaching and flipped classrooms to enhance students' learning experience, deepen their understanding of the subject material, develop creative and critical thinking, and gain transferrable skills that prepare them for future careers. To support students in the aforementioned areas we have developed an academic and study skills module (ASK) that covers key topics associated with student learning and assessment and includes feedback literacy sessions. The main aim of the project is to create student-focused content to provide pragmatic support in the student’s current academic life and beyond BMB.

Student and staff partners will evaluate the ASK module virtual content on MedLearn and collaborate to:

1. Assess the applicability and benefit of the current ASK topics and their related activities to effectively support student learning.
2. Identify ASK topics that need improving and topics that need to be created de novo to enhance student learning.
3. Discuss and identify face-to-face activities which would support learning and assessment, promote students’ engagement, and peer-to-peer support.

Any student who has experienced learning and assessment in BMB should have a good understanding of how the ASK material can be further developed to improve students’ academic experience. Student partners will have an opportunity to reflect on resources that enhance the student learning journey on the BMB programme and directly contribute to curriculum development for both current and future BMB students. Participation in this project also provides an opportunity for collaboration across different year groups (Y1 and Y2) with teachers and learning technologists, exchange ideas and provide insight based on different perspectives and experiences. In addition, student partners will be able to develop their digital skills as training will be provided to create and modify content on MedLearn, a widely used content management system for BMB.

Project Lead

Manuela Mura (manuela.mura1@imperial.ac.uk), Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Medicine Centre

Further Details/Experience Required

Six positions available.  Ideally recruiting three student partners from Year 1 and 2 each, for representation.  

12.5 consecutive days on a full-time basis from the 5th of July (half day) to the 21st of July

ASK recruitment ad

Summary

The Lived Experience Project (LEX) consists of a mini docuseries which focusses on bringing Lived Experience of Social Exclusion into the undergraduate medical curriculum. The production of 17 short videos following two Experts by Experience was completed in the academic year 2021/2022 and has since been introduced into the Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention module. The LEX project was originally created as a student-staff collaborative initiative, and it is important to us that in this next stage of the process we continue to take a collaborative, co-production approach.

The next steps in the development of the LEX project include evaluation and wide-spread integration of the project into the MBBS curriculum. Student Shapers will be involved in both planning and actioning in this next phase.

Activities may include discussion and planning meetings, mapping exercises, organisation of focus groups, analysis of qualitative data, written and verbal presentations.

The successful candidates will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills including:

• communication
• partnership working
• data analysis
• influencing
• presenting

We value diversity on our team and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that students with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process. Please contact us to request adjustment.

Due to commence in April 2023; exact start dates to be arranged between staff and student partners.

Project Lead

Molly Donovan (m.donovan@imperial.ac.uk), LMAP Teaching Fellow

Further Details/Experience Required

MBBS students in Phase 1c and/or Phase 2.  Three positions available.  10 weeks working part-time

 LEX Recruitment ad

Summary

This is an opportunity to be involved in the design and rollout of a new cross-platform application with the twin objectives of facilitating effective action towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and students’ self-development. Currently, the Change Makers modules offered within the Imperial Horizons programme feature a range of tools, practices, frameworks and methodologies that can build the capacity of students to further sustainable development and their own skillset.  We aim to facilitate wider access and more effective use of these tools for the student body at Imperial College by placing them on an interactive cross-platform app.

As a student partner involved in this project, you will learn more about a range of Change Makers tools. The interactive platform will enable partners in their independent leadership of activities with other students outside the formal classroom space.  Partners will therefore develop their capacity to engage with, motivate and lead others to participate in activities that promote sustainable development and also self-development.

Project Lead

Elizabeth Hauke (e.hauke@imperial.ac.uk) and Mark Pope (mark.pope@imperial.ac.uk), Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication

Further Details/Experience Required

 3 students with experience in Change Makers modules.  Part-time between October and March, with three weeks more intensive time-commitment during this outside of term-time. 

Changemakers online platform recruitment ad

Summary

We will develop and establish a college-wide Student Research Network within the food research discipline.

This network will untie all PhD and Masters students across the college active in any and all research which is related to food, whether that is nutrition and health, food engineering, agriculture, food consumer behaviour, food policy and economics and more….

This network is made by students for students, and ultimately it will be you who makes this a success!

This network will provide a vehicle for all students involved for cross-disciplinary learning and skill development through on-going programme of activities, events and opportunities throughout the academic year. The principal event will be an annual student conference. We will also host a bi-annual seminar series and social events. The network will also provide a platform to disseminate opportunities, topics of interest, career development and support, attract industry funding, networking and research skill development.

We have a 3 phase plan to deliver this project. This will require you as a ‘Student Research Network Manager’ to be involved in all project phases, working with other student research network managers and college staff to develop the overall student research network, as well as leading on activities in the respective faculty you represent. In all project phases you will be well supported and we have a academic lead in each faculty who will be your local point of contact, as well as staff who will be involved in the overall network.

Project lead

Aaron Lett (a.lett@imperial.ac.uk), Teaching Fellow, Dept of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Further Details/Experience Required

4 PhD students, one from each Faculty. Part-time for 34 weeks. 

Each student recruited will become the “Student Research Network Manager” for the respective Faculty they represent.

Students will be PhD students within the respective faculty, who must be involved in research related to “food” and have at least one year remaining on their enrolment status.

PhD Supervisor approval will be required upon student partners being selected. 

'College-Wide Food and Nutrition Student Research network' recruitment ad